I'm always hesitant when I see digital services funded by a single one-off payment. Running a service requires ongoing funding.
You sometimes see this with games that have a multiplayer component. People buy the game, but the multiplayer servers won't last forever.
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I'm impressed and slightly surprised that I can browse the web even when my local library's wifi blocks detectportal.firefox.com ("Download sites are banned").
It seems that Firefox only requires the website to be redirected when there's a captive portal.
I've been working on a search tool for a website with 9K items and a dumb implementation works just fine. I'd normally gravitate to a library or tool like elasticsearch (ES).
Adding custom filters etc is trivial on handrolled code. I wonder what scale requires actual search infra like ES.
I've been using "Expected Int, but got String" for my type error messages, but I've been wondering if I could do better.
"Expected Int here, but this value has type String" or "This expression requires Int, but the value is String".
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